Improvement in horseshoes



STATES Enron,

PATENT IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 161,860, dated April13, 1875; application filed March 8, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DENNIS CAREY, of Lynn, in the county of Essex andState of Massachusetts, have invented a certain Improvement inAdjustable Oalks for Horseshoes, of which the following is aspecification:

This invention relates to means for applying toe or heel calks tohorseshoes, whereby they may be readily and expeditiously applied andremoved; and my invention consists in forming upon the upper side of thecalk a tenon of peculiar shape, and combining with the shoe aturn-button for covering or overlapping a portion of this tenon, andthus retaining the call: in place, a socket being formed in the shoe toreceive the tenon, and the whole being as hereinafter explained.

The drawings accompanying this specification represent, in Figure 1, anunder-side View of a horseshoe containing my invention, while Fig. 2 ofsuch drawings exhibits a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 representsa perspective view of the toe-call; removed from the shoe.

In carrying my improvement into practice I form in the toe portion ofthe shoe B, as also in each heel of the same, an orifice or socket, (J,which in horizontal section is practically T-shaped, and 1 form upon theupper edge of each oalk (the toe-calk D being shown in the presentinstance) a tenon, E, of a form and length, as well as size, tocorrespond to the orifice 0, such tenon being intended to fit tightlywithin such orifice. The branch or offset a of the tenon E overhangs thebody of the. calk, and when the latter is applied to the shoe aturn-button, b, overlaps or turns under the same, and by this meansconfines the calk securely in place within its socket. The button I) ispivoted at its base to the under side of the shoe, and to one side ofthe orifice O, as shown at c, and in such a position with respect to thecalk that when turned inward it shall abut lengthwise against the sideof such calk, if the toe, and endwise against the heel-calks, and coveror extend under the spur a, as stated. The upper surface of the calk isprolonged beyond the front face of the tenon E, as shown at d in thedrawings, and presents a broad and durable bearingagainst the under sideof the shoe, to receive and sustain the strains and shocks whichotherwise would be exerted upon the tenon.

A calk made and confined to a shoe as above explained is readily appliedand removed, and

enables the owner or driver of a horse to keep the animals shoes sharpwithout the labor and time required to remove the shoe and return it.

I claim- I The calk constructed with a T-shaped tenon, and secured tothe shoe B by the button I), substantially in the manner described.

DENNIS CAREY. Witnesses:

I OURTIs, JOSEPH E. WATTS.

